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In an article, published on Friday, 18 December 2020 in
The Namibian, Alfredo Tjiurimo Hengari, press secretary in the Presidency, asked Namibians to “continue with the heritage of unity and tolerance”.
His reference that “some of the prominent among us (politicians and analysts) are dangerously gambling by telling the lie that nation-building is a fluke and ours is a country in a Hobbesian state of tribalism, racism and divisions” is not entirely misplaced. It is true that some politicians and analysts stoke the embers of race, class, tribe and region. Why this is so, the author failed to answer.
The author reminded readers that many Namibians “fought occupying forces in socially constructed ethnic geographies. But their moral victories have been to the benefit of a national history of development and nation-building since 1990”. It is precisely here that one of the current centrifugal currents originates: the failure of political leaders to value the diversit